Andrew Bennett challenges the popular conception of Wordsworth as a
writer who didn't so much write poetry as compose it aloud or in
his head (usually while walking, and preferably while ascending
mountains). The act and idea of writing is in fact central to the
themes and to the rhetorical texture of Wordsworth's poetry. This
wide-ranging study considers various aspects of Wordsworth's
compositional practice, including questions of revision and
dictation, of monumental inscription and graffiti, of talking and
thinking, and of the poet's own theory of composition, and examines
the implications of a critical tradition that erroneously assumes
that Wordsworth employed exclusively 'oral' modes of composition.
For Wordsworth, acts of writing were important dimensions of his
poetry and indeed of his sense of personal and poetic identity.
Bennett contends that a sustained attention to the question of
writing in Wordsworth produces compelling new readings of the major
poems.
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